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...plague desperately till freeway center strips, backyards and outlying fields, hoping to raise a subsistence crop. London's offices are dark, its docks deserted. In the farm lands of the Ukraine, abandoned tractors litter the fields: there is no fuel for them. The waters of the Rhine, Nile and Yellow rivers reek with pollutants...
...facilities at Dunkirk and Le Havre. Nowhere has life changed so much as along the western Riviera, where builders are hard at work on Fos-sur-Mer, a new port that will provide entry to a vast inland shipping route. By 1980, when dredging work along the Rhone and Rhine rivers is completed, vessels will be able to reach the North Sea from the Mediterranean via Fos, thus avoiding the long trip around the Iberian Peninsula...
...sense that new developments, as yet dimly perceived, will make or break Europe's future. One of the optimists is Otto von Habsburg, onetime heir to the late Austro-Hungarian Empire and now a full-time promoter of European unity. "When I was a boy," he says, "the Rhine River represented a dividing line even greater than the Iron Curtain today. That has already gone." The former Archduke believes that Britain will be "a tremendous new impulse." Beyond that, he says, what is really needed are some "jolts to move this continent along," such as the removal...
...couple's routine is not markedly different from those that 1,300,000 other Japanese will have followed before the end of this year. The two travelers and their entourage of 34 will visit Notre Dame, see the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen Harbor and ride a steamer along the Rhine to gaze at the Lorelei rocks. At Buckingham Palace, Hirohito might show his Empress the bedroom where, 50 years ago, King George V padded in wearing carpet slippers and suspenders, and boomed: "Everything satisfactory...
...Lukas first appeared on the Hollywood silent screen opposite Pola Negri in Loves of an Actress. He took a recess from films and in 1941 scored his greatest stage triumph portraying Kurt Müller, the dogged anti-Nazi hero of Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine. Three years later he received an Oscar for best actor when he re-created the role on film...